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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20091121
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20091121
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
SUMMARY:Event Horizon
LOCATION:Galleries 1, 2, 3
DESCRIPTION:Runs through: Sunday, August 26, 2012\N\NHighlights and hidden secrets of the Walker's contemporary art collections are presented in a lively sequence of rotations that unfold throughout the exhibition's run. Inspired by the idea of the event horizon\, a term that describes the edge of observable space\, this exhibition threads together...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/canopy.wac?id=5269
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:walker530616638
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20091121
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20091121
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
SUMMARY:Benches & Binoculars
LOCATION:Linda and Lawrence Perlman Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Runs through: Sunday, August 15, 2010\N\NA reminder that all art was at one time contemporary\, this exhibition is inspired both by the Walker's history and the serendipity with which works come together in its storage vaults. More than 75 masterpieces\, new discoveries\, and notable oddities from the Walker collection crowd the gallery...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/canopy.wac?id=5306
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20091121T140000
CATEGORIES:Gallery Tour
SUMMARY:Opening-Day Tour: Event Horizon
LOCATION:
DESCRIPTION:From the screening of Bruce Conner's Crossroads to Andy Warhol's painting 16 Jackies\, the exhibition Event Horizon surveys political and socioeconomic shifts in our culture and the ways in which artists have responded. Visual arts curator Betsy Carpenter and film curator Sheryl Mousley lead a tour...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=5345
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20091121T150000
CATEGORIES:Film
SUMMARY:2009 All City Youth Video Showcase
LOCATION:Cinema
DESCRIPTION:Check out this entertaining afternoon of films made by directors under the age 18. Ranging from a story about a man's journey in the world of drag racing and rock and roll (Drag Racing Life)  to an animated film depicting the crushing stress of high school life (Humpty Dumpty)\, the All City Youth...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=5376
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20091121T193000
CATEGORIES:Film (Area Premiere)
SUMMARY:Good Cats (Hao mao) with Cry Me a River (Heshang Aiqing)
LOCATION:Cinema
DESCRIPTION:In the fast-growing city of Zigong\, 29-year-old Luo Liang becomes a driver for Boss Peng\, a shady real estate developer. Interspersed with rock music interludes and upbeat commercials for the impending Olympics\, Ying's inventive third film is a razor-sharp satire of the moral consequences of...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=5320
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20091121T200000
CATEGORIES:Jazz
SUMMARY:Dafnis Prieto Sextet
LOCATION:McGuire Theater
DESCRIPTION:"[Prieto] has transformed Afro-Cuban rhythms . . . These pieces are emotionally charged and stylistically diverse\, carried along not just by rhythm but also through lovely harmonized passages\, horn fanfares\, and powerfully conjured moods." --Wall Street Journal \N\NBorn and trained in Cuba\, Dafnis...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=5131
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20091110T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20091110T130000
CATEGORIES:Family Program
SUMMARY:Arty Pants: Your Tuesday Playdate
LOCATION:
DESCRIPTION:What do hip kids and their (possibly) cooler parents do to spark creativity? Attend Arty Pants: Your Tuesday Playdate\, featuring activities for adults and youngsters ages 3-5. Join us each month on the second and fourth Tuesdays for art projects\, films\, gallery activities\, and story time. Free with...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=4874
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BEGIN:VEVENT
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20091124T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20091124T130000
CATEGORIES:Family Program
SUMMARY:Arty Pants: Your Tuesday Playdate
LOCATION:
DESCRIPTION:What do hip kids and their (possibly) cooler parents do to spark creativity? Attend Arty Pants: Your Tuesday Playdate\, featuring activities for adults and youngsters ages 3-5. Join us each month on the second and fourth Tuesdays for art projects\, films\, gallery activities\, and story time. Free with...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=4874
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BEGIN:VEVENT
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20091208T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20091208T130000
CATEGORIES:Family Program
SUMMARY:Arty Pants: Your Tuesday Playdate
LOCATION:
DESCRIPTION:What do hip kids and their (possibly) cooler parents do to spark creativity? Attend Arty Pants: Your Tuesday Playdate\, featuring activities for adults and youngsters ages 3-5. Join us each month on the second and fourth Tuesdays for art projects\, films\, gallery activities\, and story time. Free with...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=4874
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BEGIN:VEVENT
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20091222T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20091222T130000
CATEGORIES:Family Program
SUMMARY:Arty Pants: Your Tuesday Playdate
LOCATION:
DESCRIPTION:What do hip kids and their (possibly) cooler parents do to spark creativity? Attend Arty Pants: Your Tuesday Playdate\, featuring activities for adults and youngsters ages 3-5. Join us each month on the second and fourth Tuesdays for art projects\, films\, gallery activities\, and story time. Free with...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=4874
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20091127T120000
CATEGORIES:Gallery Tour
SUMMARY:Public Tours of Dirt on Delight: Impulses That Form Clay
LOCATION:
DESCRIPTION: 
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=5340
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:walker534016474
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20091128T120000
CATEGORIES:Gallery Tour
SUMMARY:Public Tours of Dirt on Delight: Impulses That Form Clay
LOCATION:
DESCRIPTION: 
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=5340
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:walker534016475
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20091129T120000
CATEGORIES:Gallery Tour
SUMMARY:Public Tours of Dirt on Delight: Impulses That Form Clay
LOCATION:
DESCRIPTION: 
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=5340
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20091128T213000
CATEGORIES:Dance
SUMMARY:Choreographers' Evening
LOCATION:McGuire Theater
DESCRIPTION:"A cornucopia of Twin Cities dance . . . [a] smorgasbord of emerging and mature talent from across the dance spectrum." --MinnPost \N\NFor almost 40 years\, Choreographers' Evening has served as the major gathering for our thriving local dance community. Dedicated to serving up quality and quantity\,...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/canopy.wac?id=5132
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20091128T190000
CATEGORIES:Dance
SUMMARY:Choreographers' Evening
LOCATION:McGuire Theater
DESCRIPTION:"A cornucopia of Twin Cities dance . . . [a] smorgasbord of emerging and mature talent from across the dance spectrum." --MinnPost \N\NFor almost 40 years\, Choreographers' Evening has served as the major gathering for our thriving local dance community. Dedicated to serving up quality and quantity\,...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/canopy.wac?id=5132
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20091128T180000
CATEGORIES:Pre-Performance Tours
SUMMARY:Choreographers' Evening and Event Horizon
LOCATION:
DESCRIPTION:Before the performance celebrating Minnesota's most vibrant choreographers\, tour the new exhibition Event Horizon\, which features work by Trisha Brown\, Merce Cunningham\, and others who nimbly navigate both dance and visual art. Tour length: 45 minutes. Tours are limited to 25 people. Please...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=5262
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20091128T203000
CATEGORIES:Pre-Performance Tours
SUMMARY:Choreographers' Evening and Event Horizon
LOCATION:
DESCRIPTION:Before the performance celebrating Minnesota's most vibrant choreographers\, tour the new exhibition Event Horizon\, which features work by Trisha Brown\, Merce Cunningham\, and others who nimbly navigate both dance and visual art. Tour length: 45 minutes. Tours are limited to 25 people. Please...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=5262
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BEGIN:VEVENT
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20091203T190000
CATEGORIES:Gallery Tour
SUMMARY:Tour: Dan Graham: Beyond with the BodyCartography Project
LOCATION:Meet in the Bazinet Garden Lobby
DESCRIPTION:Choreographers Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad (aka the BodyCartography Project) are known for combining dance\, video\, and public space. Join them for a movement-based tour of the work of Dan Graham\, whose art shares a similar sensibility.
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=5339
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20091113T190000
CATEGORIES:Member Events
SUMMARY:A Think and a Drink: Member Program
LOCATION:
DESCRIPTION:Join other Walker members who want more from their memberships. Not your average tour\, this program brings together members to spend some quality time at an exhibition\, film\, or performance and then socialize over light snacks and a drink at our cash bar. Space is limited for these exclusive...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=5063
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BEGIN:VEVENT
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20091204T190000
CATEGORIES:Member Events
SUMMARY:A Think and a Drink: Member Program
LOCATION:
DESCRIPTION:Join other Walker members who want more from their memberships. Not your average tour\, this program brings together members to spend some quality time at an exhibition\, film\, or performance and then socialize over light snacks and a drink at our cash bar. Space is limited for these exclusive...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=5063
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BEGIN:VEVENT
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20091204
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20100102
CATEGORIES:Film
SUMMARY:2009 British Television Advertising Awards
LOCATION:Cinema and McGuire Theater
DESCRIPTION:Brimming with creativity and chosen by top advertising executives and producers across the globe\, these sly\, sexy\, hilarious\, and thought-provoking British spots have been a Walker highlight for 21 years. The program this year includes dancing marionettes\, monkeys\, and nudists as well as American...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=5347
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BEGIN:VEVENT
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20091204
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20091206
CATEGORIES:Special Event
SUMMARY:Member Double-Discount Shopping Days
LOCATION:Walker Shop
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, 11 am- 9 pm; Saturday\, 10 am-9 pm; Sunday\, 11 am-6 pm\N\N* New: Members save 20% on all purchases\N* New: Local Artist Gift Mart: 12 noon-4 pm daily\N* Free parking voucher*\N* 20% discount on dining in Gallery 8 Cafe by Wolfgang Puck\N* A chance to meet with Diane O'Donnel from Alessi on...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=5344
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BEGIN:VEVENT
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20091205T100000
CATEGORIES:A 10-Hour Open House
SUMMARY:Wall-to-Wall Walker
LOCATION:
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a daylong celebration of all things Walker: music\, film\, performance\, and an array of artworks from the new collection exhibitions Event Horizon and Benches & Binoculars. Come early for family fun; stay late with friends and enjoy gallery tours\, cocktails\, dinner\, film in the Cinema\, or...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/canopy.wac?id=5338
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:walker526516464
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20091205T100000
CATEGORIES:Family Program
SUMMARY:The Big Event
LOCATION:
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate art\, music\, film\, performance and much more at this all-day (and into the night!) open-house extravaganza.\N\NPerformance: Erik Friedlander\NMcGuire Theater\, 1 pm\NJazz cellist Erik Friedlander combines inventive music with travel stories and images created by his renowned photographer...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=5265
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20091205T200000
CATEGORIES:Music (Walker Commission)
SUMMARY:Erik Friedlander
LOCATION:McGuire Theater
DESCRIPTION:"One of today's most ingenious and forward-thinking musical practitioners." --Billboard\N\NThis collection of cinematic cello compositions by jazz/new music phenom Erik Friedlander\N(John Zorn\, Laurie Anderson) was inspired by years of family road trips with all the trimmings:\Ncampers\, tourist...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=5133
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20091210T190000
CATEGORIES:Gallery Tour
SUMMARY:Event Horizon with Darsie Alexander
LOCATION:Meet in the Bazinet Garden Lobby
DESCRIPTION:Chief curator Darsie Alexander leads visitors on a tour of the Walker's newest exhibition.
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=5341
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:walker466916381
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20091031
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20091031
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
SUMMARY:Dan Graham: Beyond
LOCATION:Galleries 4, 5, 6
DESCRIPTION:Runs through: Sunday, January 24, 2010\N\NOne of contemporary art's most innovative figures\, Dan Graham has been at the forefront of numerous artistic developments since the 1960s\, from the rise of conceptualism and minimalism to video and performance to explorations of architecture and the culture of rock and roll. His rejection of the...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/canopy.wac?id=4669
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:walker534816641
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20091217
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20091217
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
SUMMARY:Heavy Sleepers
LOCATION:Target Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Runs through: Sunday, March 14, 2010\N\NAn acute exposition of social realities in China\, Zhao's large-scale video environment depicts the interior of a dormitory for construction workers. One side of the space shows sleeping men; the other\, a row of empty beds. Walking through\, the visitor is immersed in simple scenes illustrating the...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=5348
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:walker452616574
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20091022
CATEGORIES:Gallery Talk
SUMMARY:Sound Bites: Short Talks about Art
LOCATION:Meet in the Bazinet Garden Lobby
DESCRIPTION:Contemporary art and artists are the focus of these 15-minute gallery conversations led by Walker curators and tour guides. Each highlights selected artworks or artists that serve as topics for illuminating discussions\, and participants leave feeling connected to new and exciting ideas. Carry this...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=4526
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:walker452616575
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20091105
CATEGORIES:Gallery Talk
SUMMARY:Sound Bites: Short Talks about Art
LOCATION:Meet in the Bazinet Garden Lobby
DESCRIPTION:Contemporary art and artists are the focus of these 15-minute gallery conversations led by Walker curators and tour guides. Each highlights selected artworks or artists that serve as topics for illuminating discussions\, and participants leave feeling connected to new and exciting ideas. Carry this...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=4526
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:walker452616576
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20091112
CATEGORIES:Gallery Talk
SUMMARY:Sound Bites: Short Talks about Art
LOCATION:Meet in the Bazinet Garden Lobby
DESCRIPTION:Contemporary art and artists are the focus of these 15-minute gallery conversations led by Walker curators and tour guides. Each highlights selected artworks or artists that serve as topics for illuminating discussions\, and participants leave feeling connected to new and exciting ideas. Carry this...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=4526
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:walker452616577
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20091119
CATEGORIES:Gallery Talk
SUMMARY:Sound Bites: Short Talks about Art
LOCATION:Meet in the Bazinet Garden Lobby
DESCRIPTION:Contemporary art and artists are the focus of these 15-minute gallery conversations led by Walker curators and tour guides. Each highlights selected artworks or artists that serve as topics for illuminating discussions\, and participants leave feeling connected to new and exciting ideas. Carry this...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=4526
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:walker452616578
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20091217
CATEGORIES:Gallery Talk
SUMMARY:Sound Bites: Short Talks about Art
LOCATION:Meet in the Bazinet Garden Lobby
DESCRIPTION:Contemporary art and artists are the focus of these 15-minute gallery conversations led by Walker curators and tour guides. Each highlights selected artworks or artists that serve as topics for illuminating discussions\, and participants leave feeling connected to new and exciting ideas. Carry this...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=4526
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:walker526616707
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100102T100000
CATEGORIES:Family Program
SUMMARY:Hooked on Books
LOCATION:
DESCRIPTION:Fiction\, fable\, and fairytales inspire day of storytelling and fantasy with a special guest author/illustrator.\N\NPerformance: Polkabats and Octopus Slacks--Live!\N11 am and 1 pm\NCinema\NJoin national bestselling author and illustrator Calef Brown and local musical guests Kate Lynch and Chris...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=5266
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BEGIN:VEVENT
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100107T190000
CATEGORIES:Target Free Thursday Nights
SUMMARY:The Inquisition: Art Is Fun
LOCATION:Perlman Gallery
DESCRIPTION:In 1940 the Walker hosted the Inquisition\, a quiz forum that tested both novices and experts on their range of art-historical knowledge and expertise. Letters\, photos\, and articles from the archives create a picture of an event that took a lighthearted approach to the heavyweight challenges of...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=5396
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:walker513516717
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100108
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20100131
CATEGORIES:Interactive Performance
SUMMARY:Rimini Protokoll
LOCATION:Location to be announced
DESCRIPTION:"Wildly entrancing\, and in that way theatre at its best. One of the most puzzling\, affecting performances I have attended." --Politiken\, Kopenhagen\N\NA phone is ringing in an empty office in Minneapolis . . . it's for you. Answer it and begin your personal performance experience that crosses...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=5135
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BEGIN:VEVENT
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100114T200000
CATEGORIES:Theater/Performance (Walker Commission/World Premiere)
SUMMARY:Radiohole
LOCATION:McGuire Theater
DESCRIPTION:"[Radiohole] turns out effervescent\, anarchic work . . . cultivates an eccentric acting style and makes familiar text creepily bizarre." --Time Out \N\NKnown for its radical and reckless theatricality\, avant-garde New York troupe Radiohole's newest work is a star-spangled American meta-melodrama...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/canopy.wac?id=5137
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BEGIN:VEVENT
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100115T200000
CATEGORIES:Theater/Performance (Walker Commission/World Premiere)
SUMMARY:Radiohole
LOCATION:McGuire Theater
DESCRIPTION:"[Radiohole] turns out effervescent\, anarchic work . . . cultivates an eccentric acting style and makes familiar text creepily bizarre." --Time Out \N\NKnown for its radical and reckless theatricality\, avant-garde New York troupe Radiohole's newest work is a star-spangled American meta-melodrama...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/canopy.wac?id=5137
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:walker513716699
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100116T200000
CATEGORIES:Theater/Performance (Walker Commission/World Premiere)
SUMMARY:Radiohole
LOCATION:McGuire Theater
DESCRIPTION:"[Radiohole] turns out effervescent\, anarchic work . . . cultivates an eccentric acting style and makes familiar text creepily bizarre." --Time Out \N\NKnown for its radical and reckless theatricality\, avant-garde New York troupe Radiohole's newest work is a star-spangled American meta-melodrama...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/canopy.wac?id=5137
END:VEVENT
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100116T110000
CATEGORIES:Workshop
SUMMARY:Inside Out There: Radiohole
LOCATION:McGuire Theater
DESCRIPTION:Radiohole's creative process can be summarized by the Situationist term "detournement" --the use of preexisting aesthetic elements to create a new work. The workshop will explore a variety of methods Radiohole employs to create the text that forms the basis of its productions. Techniques include...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=5392
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:walker466816640
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20090924
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20090924
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
SUMMARY:Haegue Yang: Integrity of the Insider
LOCATION:Medtronic Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Runs through: Sunday, February 28, 2010\N\NFrom mundane objects and materials such as venetian blinds\, theatrical and decorative lights\, infrared heaters\, scent emitters\, and fans\, Haegue Yang creates complex and nuanced installations that are informed by poetry\, politics\, and human emotions. This solo exhibition\, Yang's first in a U.S....
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/canopy.wac?id=4668
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BEGIN:VEVENT
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100121T200000
CATEGORIES:Theater/Performance
SUMMARY:Roger Guenveur Smith
LOCATION:McGuire Theater
DESCRIPTION:"Smith's monologue has a freestyle bounce\, like a series of vivid dreams over the course of a restless night." --Variety \N\NObie Award-winning writer/director/actor Roger Guenveur Smith (Huey P. Newton\, Iceland) returns to the Walker with a funny and riveting jazz-infused meditation on making...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/canopy.wac?id=5138
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:walker513816701
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100122T200000
CATEGORIES:Theater/Performance
SUMMARY:Roger Guenveur Smith
LOCATION:McGuire Theater
DESCRIPTION:"Smith's monologue has a freestyle bounce\, like a series of vivid dreams over the course of a restless night." --Variety \N\NObie Award-winning writer/director/actor Roger Guenveur Smith (Huey P. Newton\, Iceland) returns to the Walker with a funny and riveting jazz-infused meditation on making...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/canopy.wac?id=5138
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:walker513816702
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100123T200000
CATEGORIES:Theater/Performance
SUMMARY:Roger Guenveur Smith
LOCATION:McGuire Theater
DESCRIPTION:"Smith's monologue has a freestyle bounce\, like a series of vivid dreams over the course of a restless night." --Variety \N\NObie Award-winning writer/director/actor Roger Guenveur Smith (Huey P. Newton\, Iceland) returns to the Walker with a funny and riveting jazz-infused meditation on making...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/canopy.wac?id=5138
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:walker539316711
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100123T110000
CATEGORIES:Workshop
SUMMARY:Inside Out There: Roger Guenveur Smith
LOCATION:McGuire Theater
DESCRIPTION:DON'T FORGET TO BREATHE. Join writer-performer Roger Guenveur Smith in a workshop exploring the improvisational impulse. Create new work for the stage. In the moment. 
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=5393
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:walker513616694
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100128T200000
CATEGORIES:Theater/Performance
SUMMARY:Hotel Modern
LOCATION:McGuire Theater
DESCRIPTION:"An astonishingly inventive and unbearably touching production." --BBC Radio\N\NRotterdam's Hotel Modern creates fascinating performance works that fuse drama\, visual art\, object theater\, puppetry\, music\, and film. The company uses household paraphernalia to construct scale models of miniature...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/canopy.wac?id=5136
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:walker513616695
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100129T200000
CATEGORIES:Theater/Performance
SUMMARY:Hotel Modern
LOCATION:McGuire Theater
DESCRIPTION:"An astonishingly inventive and unbearably touching production." --BBC Radio\N\NRotterdam's Hotel Modern creates fascinating performance works that fuse drama\, visual art\, object theater\, puppetry\, music\, and film. The company uses household paraphernalia to construct scale models of miniature...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/canopy.wac?id=5136
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:walker513616696
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100130T200000
CATEGORIES:Theater/Performance
SUMMARY:Hotel Modern
LOCATION:McGuire Theater
DESCRIPTION:"An astonishingly inventive and unbearably touching production." --BBC Radio\N\NRotterdam's Hotel Modern creates fascinating performance works that fuse drama\, visual art\, object theater\, puppetry\, music\, and film. The company uses household paraphernalia to construct scale models of miniature...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/canopy.wac?id=5136
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:walker539416709
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100130T110000
CATEGORIES:Workshop
SUMMARY:Inside Out There: Hotel Modern
LOCATION:McGuire Theater
DESCRIPTION:Join Hotel Modern's artistic team (director Pauline Kalker\, composer Arthur Sauer\, and visual artist Herman Helle) for a behind-the-scenes look at and discussion of their unique theater/film hybrid piece The Great War. Topics and in-depth demonstrations will touch on sound art\, film language used...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=5394
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:walker513915751
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100206T190000
CATEGORIES:Music (Walker Commission/World Premiere)
SUMMARY:Bill Frisell/Rahim AlHaj/Eyvind Kang
LOCATION:McGuire Theater
DESCRIPTION:"Frisell is a revered figure among musicians--like Miles Davis and few others\, his signature is built from pure sound and inflection; an anti-technique that is instantly identifiable."--Philadelphia Inquirer\N\NTraditional Iraqi maqams\, Americana\, and jazz come together through the innovation and...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=5139
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100206T213000
CATEGORIES:Music (Walker Commission/World Premiere)
SUMMARY:Bill Frisell/Rahim AlHaj/Eyvind Kang
LOCATION:McGuire Theater
DESCRIPTION:"Frisell is a revered figure among musicians--like Miles Davis and few others\, his signature is built from pure sound and inflection; an anti-technique that is instantly identifiable."--Philadelphia Inquirer\N\NTraditional Iraqi maqams\, Americana\, and jazz come together through the innovation and...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=5139
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20090901
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20100228
CATEGORIES:Screenings from the Collection
SUMMARY:Burrowing Inward: Short Films by Jacques Drouin and Guy Maddin 
LOCATION:Best Buy Film/Video Bay
DESCRIPTION:This selection of works from the Walker's Ruben/Bentson Film and Video Study Collection showcases two short pieces about artists entering the worlds depicted in their art. In Canadian Jacques Drouin's brilliant pinscreen animation Mindscape (1976\, 8 minutes)\, a painter saunters through the...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=5236
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100211T200000
CATEGORIES:Dance (U.S. Debut Tour)
SUMMARY:Bruno Beltrao/Grupo de Rua de Niteroi
LOCATION:McGuire Theater
DESCRIPTION: "Brazilian choreographer Bruno Beltrao . . . is set to inflict seismic shock waves upon the hip-hop world." --Ballet World\N\NBruno Beltrao became an international sensation with choreography fusing hip-hop and\Ncontemporary dance. His 10-member Grupo de Rua de Niteroi presents H3\, his most...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=5140
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100212T200000
CATEGORIES:Dance (U.S. Debut Tour)
SUMMARY:Bruno Beltrao/Grupo de Rua de Niteroi
LOCATION:McGuire Theater
DESCRIPTION: "Brazilian choreographer Bruno Beltrao . . . is set to inflict seismic shock waves upon the hip-hop world." --Ballet World\N\NBruno Beltrao became an international sensation with choreography fusing hip-hop and\Ncontemporary dance. His 10-member Grupo de Rua de Niteroi presents H3\, his most...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=5140
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100213T200000
CATEGORIES:Dance (U.S. Debut Tour)
SUMMARY:Bruno Beltrao/Grupo de Rua de Niteroi
LOCATION:McGuire Theater
DESCRIPTION: "Brazilian choreographer Bruno Beltrao . . . is set to inflict seismic shock waves upon the hip-hop world." --Ballet World\N\NBruno Beltrao became an international sensation with choreography fusing hip-hop and\Ncontemporary dance. His 10-member Grupo de Rua de Niteroi presents H3\, his most...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=5140
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100227
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20100227
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
SUMMARY:Abstract Resistance
LOCATION:Galleries 4, 5, 6
DESCRIPTION:Runs through: Sunday, May 23, 2010\N\NWith works ranging from the early 1950s to brand-new commissions\, this exhibition brings together multiple generations of artists who revolted against the aesthetic orthodoxies of their time: now-legendary figures as well as younger artists currently making waves. Borrowing its title from a...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/canopy.wac?id=4670
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100303T200000
CATEGORIES:Dance (Midwest Debut)
SUMMARY:Akram Khan Company
LOCATION:Northrop Auditorium
DESCRIPTION:"Khan's distinctive choreography\, which leaps and whirls\, thrills and surprises as it shifts across styles and continents and echoes the origins of dancers." --The Herald (Glasgow)\N\NBritish choreographer Akram Khan does something unique and captivating when he blends classical North Indian kathak...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=5142
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100304T200000
CATEGORIES:Dance/Music (Walker Commission)
SUMMARY:Morgan Thorson/Low
LOCATION:McGuire Theater
DESCRIPTION:"Morgan Thorson has a mix-master mind\, from which postmodern movement and the detritus of everyday life spin out as hilarious vignettes." --New York Notebook  \N\NBoth borrowing from and subverting religious rituals\, Minneapolis' Morgan Thorson\, a rising force on the national contemporary dance...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/canopy.wac?id=5143
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100305T200000
CATEGORIES:Dance/Music (Walker Commission)
SUMMARY:Morgan Thorson/Low
LOCATION:McGuire Theater
DESCRIPTION:"Morgan Thorson has a mix-master mind\, from which postmodern movement and the detritus of everyday life spin out as hilarious vignettes." --New York Notebook  \N\NBoth borrowing from and subverting religious rituals\, Minneapolis' Morgan Thorson\, a rising force on the national contemporary dance...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/canopy.wac?id=5143
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100306T200000
CATEGORIES:Dance/Music (Walker Commission)
SUMMARY:Morgan Thorson/Low
LOCATION:McGuire Theater
DESCRIPTION:"Morgan Thorson has a mix-master mind\, from which postmodern movement and the detritus of everyday life spin out as hilarious vignettes." --New York Notebook  \N\NBoth borrowing from and subverting religious rituals\, Minneapolis' Morgan Thorson\, a rising force on the national contemporary dance...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/canopy.wac?id=5143
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100304T190000
CATEGORIES:Preshow Tour
SUMMARY:Perfection, Paradise, and the Afterlife
LOCATION:
DESCRIPTION:Before the performance of Morgan Thorson/Low's newest work\, Heaven\, spend time in the Walker galleries on a guided tour exploring themes present in the piece: perfection\, paradise\, and afterlife. Examine ways that visual artists engage with these ideas in their work while identifying visible and...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=5261
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20090806
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20090806
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
SUMMARY:Robert Irwin: Slant/Light/Volume
LOCATION:Friedman Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Runs through: Sunday, November 21, 2010\N\NThroughout his long career\, Robert Irwin has pondered whether we ever have an absolutely pure or direct moment in front of a work of art. This installation\, last on view 20 years ago\, represents his effort to foster such an experience. Part of a series of powerful--and temporary--works the artist...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/canopy.wac?id=4671
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100312T200000
CATEGORIES:Music (Debut Performances)
SUMMARY:King for Two Days
LOCATION:McGuire Theater
DESCRIPTION:"Better than anyone at mixing the sensibilities of post-'60s jazz and indie rock" --New York Times\N\NFriday\, March 12: Buffalo Collision\, The Bad Plus\, Happy Apple\, The Bad Apple\NSaturday--Band Debuts\, March 13: Golden Valley Is Now\, Dave King Trucking Company\N\NJoin us for two evenings...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=5144
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100313T200000
CATEGORIES:Music (Debut Performances)
SUMMARY:King for Two Days
LOCATION:McGuire Theater
DESCRIPTION:"Better than anyone at mixing the sensibilities of post-'60s jazz and indie rock" --New York Times\N\NFriday\, March 12: Buffalo Collision\, The Bad Plus\, Happy Apple\, The Bad Apple\NSaturday--Band Debuts\, March 13: Golden Valley Is Now\, Dave King Trucking Company\N\NJoin us for two evenings...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=5144
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100318T200000
CATEGORIES:Theater
SUMMARY:Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell
LOCATION:McGuire Theater
DESCRIPTION:"A breathing portrait . . . you feel the deep\, lonely ache of something precious lost. Thank Heaven that Stories Left to Tell reminds you that something precious remains as well. " --New York Times\N\NCelebrating the influential work and life of actor/writer Spalding Gray (1941-2004) and his...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=5150
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100319T200000
CATEGORIES:Theater
SUMMARY:Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell
LOCATION:McGuire Theater
DESCRIPTION:"A breathing portrait . . . you feel the deep\, lonely ache of something precious lost. Thank Heaven that Stories Left to Tell reminds you that something precious remains as well. " --New York Times\N\NCelebrating the influential work and life of actor/writer Spalding Gray (1941-2004) and his...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=5150
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100320T200000
CATEGORIES:Theater
SUMMARY:Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell
LOCATION:McGuire Theater
DESCRIPTION:"A breathing portrait . . . you feel the deep\, lonely ache of something precious lost. Thank Heaven that Stories Left to Tell reminds you that something precious remains as well. " --New York Times\N\NCelebrating the influential work and life of actor/writer Spalding Gray (1941-2004) and his...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=5150
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100325
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20100325
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
SUMMARY:1964
LOCATION:Medtronic Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Runs through: Sunday, June 27, 2010\N\N1964 focuses on works made during a period of tremendous upheaval and transformation politically\, socially\, and artistically in the U.S. In the year following the assassination of John F. Kennedy\, the country saw riots erupt in a number of cities; President Lyndon Johnson ordered the first bombings...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/canopy.wac?id=5373
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20090711
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20090711
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
SUMMARY:Dirt on Delight: Impulses That Form Clay
LOCATION:Target Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Runs through: Sunday, November 29, 2009\N\NThis exhibition presents significant work in clay by 22 artists spanning four generations. Ranging from modestly scaled pots to figurines to large sculptures\, these objects cross a spectrum of conventional delineations among fine art\, craft\, and outsider practices. Collectively they suggest that...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/canopy.wac?id=4667
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100409
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20100409
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
SUMMARY:The Talent Show
LOCATION:Target Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Runs through: Sunday, August 15, 2010\N\NLooking at art since the 1960s that coerces people to put themselves on view\, The Talent Show explores the range of complicated relationships that have emerged over the past four decades between artists\, audiences and participants. In recent years\, reality television\, web-based social media\, and...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=5374
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100410T200000
CATEGORIES:Music
SUMMARY:Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba  
LOCATION:Cedar Cultural Center
DESCRIPTION:"The instrumental pyrotechnics never fail to amaze. But if the music astonishes with its ever increasing tightness\, the whole visual show is just joyful too . . . their synchronized footwork is like one of those great 60s soul reviews . . ." --fRoots\N\NWith his captivating\, utterly distinctive...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=5145
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100422T200000
CATEGORIES:Dance
SUMMARY:Saburo Teshigawara/KARAS
LOCATION:McGuire Theater
DESCRIPTION:"A magnificent epic of the human spirit." --Asahi \N\NOne of the great international artists working in dance today\, Saburo Teshigawara erases the body and reaches for the dance of the soul. In a rare U.S. visit\, he presents his newest solo\, a work of striking visual beauty\, rigor\, and clarity. In...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/canopy.wac?id=5146
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100423T200000
CATEGORIES:Dance
SUMMARY:Saburo Teshigawara/KARAS
LOCATION:McGuire Theater
DESCRIPTION:"A magnificent epic of the human spirit." --Asahi \N\NOne of the great international artists working in dance today\, Saburo Teshigawara erases the body and reaches for the dance of the soul. In a rare U.S. visit\, he presents his newest solo\, a work of striking visual beauty\, rigor\, and clarity. In...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/canopy.wac?id=5146
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100424T200000
CATEGORIES:Dance
SUMMARY:Saburo Teshigawara/KARAS
LOCATION:McGuire Theater
DESCRIPTION:"A magnificent epic of the human spirit." --Asahi \N\NOne of the great international artists working in dance today\, Saburo Teshigawara erases the body and reaches for the dance of the soul. In a rare U.S. visit\, he presents his newest solo\, a work of striking visual beauty\, rigor\, and clarity. In...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/canopy.wac?id=5146
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100422T190000
CATEGORIES:Preshow Tour
SUMMARY:The Complexity of Beauty
LOCATION:
DESCRIPTION:Saburo Teshigawara tests tradition\, and through movement he finds the freedom to play out and play with the complexity of beauty and the creative process. Before experiencing Miroku\, join a tour guide for a look at a selection of visual works that are in concert with Teshigawara's art-making....
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=5263
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100501T200000
CATEGORIES:Music
SUMMARY:eighth blackbird
LOCATION:McGuire Theater
DESCRIPTION:"eighth blackbird's performances are the picture of polish and precision\, and they seem to be thoroughly engaged by music in a broad range of contemporary styles."--New York Times    \N\NThis Chicago-based new music sextet has received national attention for combining bracing\Nvirtuosity\, an...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=5147
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100520T200000
CATEGORIES:Dance (Walker Commission)
SUMMARY:John Jasperse Company
LOCATION:McGuire Theater
DESCRIPTION:"Entertaining. Lush. Funny. Jasperse seems here to have tapped into his inner vaudevillian. [The work] exerts its charms from the moment the lights go up." --New York Times \N\NOne of America's most astute and influential innovators trains his keen eye on the idea of veracity--and the lack...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=5148
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100521T200000
CATEGORIES:Dance (Walker Commission)
SUMMARY:John Jasperse Company
LOCATION:McGuire Theater
DESCRIPTION:"Entertaining. Lush. Funny. Jasperse seems here to have tapped into his inner vaudevillian. [The work] exerts its charms from the moment the lights go up." --New York Times \N\NOne of America's most astute and influential innovators trains his keen eye on the idea of veracity--and the lack...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=5148
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20100522T200000
CATEGORIES:Dance (Walker Commission)
SUMMARY:John Jasperse Company
LOCATION:McGuire Theater
DESCRIPTION:"Entertaining. Lush. Funny. Jasperse seems here to have tapped into his inner vaudevillian. [The work] exerts its charms from the moment the lights go up." --New York Times \N\NOne of America's most astute and influential innovators trains his keen eye on the idea of veracity--and the lack...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=5148
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20101023
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20101023
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
SUMMARY:Yves Klein
LOCATION:Galleries 4, 5, 6
DESCRIPTION:Runs through: Sunday, February 13, 2011\N\NHalf shaman\, half showman\, Yves Klein took the European art scene by storm in a brief career that lasted just eight years\, from 1954 to 1962. Working in Paris during the apogee of geometric abstraction and Art Informel\, in an intellectual scene dominated by existentialism\, Klein carved out...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/canopy.wac?id=4489
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20050417
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20050417
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
SUMMARY:Elemental
LOCATION:Peggy and Ralph Burnet Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Runs through: Sunday, January 24, 2010\N\NBy the mid-1960s\, critics and artists heralded the arrival of Minimalism\, an idea-based sensibility that seemed more in keeping with America's embrace of its burgeoning space program and new technologies than the Abstract Expressionists' mining or the subjective and the Pop artists' adoption of...
URL:http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=1526
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